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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was an only child and have an only child.  I loved being my mother’s (single mother) “one and only”.  With my DD, the gift has been our resources to spend on our child - enormous amounts of time and money.  We have traveled all over the world with her, lived abroad and have been able to afford NCS tuition!! [/quote]

This has been a big reason for us to have one child. We want the flexibility to be able to (relatively) easy afford private school tuition, travel abroad, support whatever interests she develops (she's only a toddler now, so we have no idea what those might be, but don't want to foreclose possibilities). She just turned 2, and we've already been to Europe with her twice. Never would have been able to do that with 2 kids.

We also don't want to have to split our time between two kids, activities-wise. That doesn't mean being helicopter parents; it's just that if she has a soccer game and her younger sibling had a baseball game, we don't want to have to pick who sees which kid's game.

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This is lovely and I totally get the sentiment.  However, I think this is why some of us felt pressure as only children.  Not because our parents drove us hard, but because they gave us every advantage possible (including their undivoded attention, etc) and so how could we not be amazing kids and then adults?  [/quote]

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